ASPP Auction #90 Prices Realized - Closed March 15, 2007

AMERICAN SOCIETY
OF POLAR PHILATELISTS

NINETIETHMAIL AUCTION

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Little America
Jan 30, 1934 hc short bars on postal card, correspondence headlined from Bay
of Whales same date written by Captain English – Captain of Bear of Oakland
to August Horowitz. “We are very busy unloading both ships and establishing
the camp.Then the “Bear” will make
history exploring vast unknown areas.” Also refers to interest in Howard’s
“Little America Times”.This is the date the Bear arrived and tied up along
the ice, hand stamp has wide space between date and year and is the one kept
on Bear which operated as a p.o. for personal mail and PCs

The first
postmaster – Clark left behind some faint machine cancels, the new postmaster
– Anderson brought with him some hand cancels which he applied to the same
covers using the same date, Little America mc Jan 31, 1934, Little America hc
Jan 31, 1934 no bars, 3LK “…delayed for one year…”, undersize envelope, BS
San Francisco Little America mail received

hc, LSE
stationery of BAE II Hotel Beverly – New York, sign. of L.L.Baxter who served
as First Ass’t. Eng’r. on Jacob Ruppert when it and Bear of Oakland picked up
expedition early in 1935, he mailed this “on the ice”, S/COT, BS San
Francisco Mar 25, 1935 Little America mail received

mc, undersize
envelope w/ K of Bear of Oakland, sign. of that ship’s Third Officer,
addressed to member of his family in Holland, BS San Francisco Mar 25, 1935
Little America mail received, reverse has penguin mail delivery K for BAE II
second cancellation, few stains

hc w/short bars,
SOE w/ Minkus K of Byrd, penguin mail delivery K for BAE II second
cancellation, unaddressed, BS dial only San Francisco Mar 25, 1935 Little
America mail received, large BAE II map K as used on covers for the
expedition’s exploratory flights over the ice and has break in that Ks outer
circle over the first “A” in “Antarctic”, prepared by postmaster Anderson as
presentation piece for dignitaries and others

G

N/S

44

franked not only
w/ BAE II stamp but also full set of National Parks Issue (10), hc (6), mc
(1), LSE, reverse has penguin mail delivery K for BAE II Little America
second cancellation, BS San Francisco Mar 25 Little America mail received

mc, official
exped LSE w/ cc BAE II NYC, sign by exped. member Russell for personal mail,
penguin mail delivery K for BAE II Little America second cancellation, BS San
Francisco Mar 25, 1935, included is printed picture of Russell on the ice w/
2 other members of geological team

“double delayed
expedition mail” East Orange NJ Mar 21, 1936, features Roessler’s 7LK
explaining that this cover was found in Clark’s box after the return of the
exped., PE w/ Byrd printed photo K

G

N/S

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SPECIAL SECTION B -----

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Note: 40 of the 44 covers in this section contain Ks featuring neatly
prepared maps of regions of Antarctica that highlight a particular
geographical feature, that feature is marked on the map and L&L are
listed, the cover bears the signature of the person for whom it is named,
each cover was mailed from Antarctica from various bases ofU.S.A., Australia, France, Great Britain,
Japan, or South Africa.Some have
additional Ks. -----

bar cancellation
on Canadian and Soviet postage, ship K of Kapitan Khlednikov, Northwest
Passage 1993 K of American Museum of Natural History, reverse has large
circle K for this exped. through Northwest Passage

B

$4.50

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ARCTIC:GERMANY -----

105

set of three
covers each w/Bielefeld stamp exhib.
pict.11 May and 13 May 1972 honoring
German Arctic exped. of 1872-74, one has map K of Franz Joseph Land and is R,
one has K for 1872-74 exped.

FDC for full
souvenir sheet Scott 735, National Stamp Exhib. Sta. New York City on LSE w/K
of NSE featuring Byrd on National Geographic Society medal, slight tear in
postage, BS on mail train to Chicago Feb 11, 1934

Hudson OH large
pict. May 21, 2006 commem. Lincoln Ellsworth on date figured to be 80th
anniv. of his flight over North Pole w/ Amundsen, franked w/ Ellsworth and
Byrd 25c stamps, a second envelope w/ same K is included (no franking or
servicing), related pamphlets and news clip included

set of two
modern pc w/ polar picts. from National Polar Philatelic Convention in Turin
10 Dec 2005, one pc features 120th birthday of General U. Nobile, other
features exped. in Franz Joseph Land 1873, first has San Marino franking and
pict., second w/ Italian, numbered for total 300 in serviced

lot of 11 covers
from 1980s and 90s that were sent to Antarctic P.O.s but were returned to
sender, mostly LSEs

A

N/S

431

set of two
covers both with French and Finnish picts 5 Sep 1986, both FDCs for joint
French-Finnish stamp issues honoring De Maupertuis and his mapping in
Lapland, one has mapK, other has 3LK w/ details of work done 250 years
earlier, one is ESE

C

$8.50

432

set of two
covers, both Raratonga Cook Islands 12 Sep 1988, FDC PEs for 8 stamps total
in set commem. 200th anniv. of Captain Cook’s voyage of discovery, identical
Cook printed Ks, ESEs